Tom Dyckhoff is an enthusiast, writer and broadcaster about architecture, cities and places.

He is architecture critic for BBC television’s weekly arts programme, The Culture Show, for whom he has interviewed architects from Oscar Niemeyer to Frank Gehry, and fronted special episodes on subjects including the Stirling Prize for architecture, Chinese culture and British architecture during the recession. Tom has written and presented many documentaries on British television and radio, including Channel 4’s series The Secret Life of Buildings, in which he looked at the effects of architecture and spaces on our brains and bodies; for BBC2’s series Saving Britain’s Past, Tom examined the country’s obsession with heritage; in I Love Carbuncles, for Channel 4, he revealed his passion for concrete Brutalism.

Tom has written a weekly column for The Guardian newspaper’s Weekend magazine for more than a decade, and, from 2003 to 2011, was architecture critic for The Times newspaper, London.

Tom was educated at Oxford University and University College London, and began his career at Perspectives, the Prince of Wales’s architectural magazine, before becoming exhibitions curator at the Royal Institute of British Architects, and then deputy editor of Space, the Guardian newspaper’s design and homes section.

He has written widely for international publications such as GQ, Arena, Wallpaper, Domus, Icon and Blueprint, has taught at University College London, and as a visiting critic at other universities, and regularly lectures and hosts or chairs events, including The Stirling Prize in 2009 and 2010.

He is currently writing his first book - on architecture and cities since the 1970s, and recording a BBC Radio 4 documentary on Buckminster Fuller.

Tom is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, a trustee of the Architecture Foundation, and has been on the national shortlisting jury for the Stirling Prize for architecture since 2008.

He lives in London, with his family.

His website is - www.tomdyckhoff.com

Contact – info@knightayton.co.uk